Story Line
The world is shocked by the appearance of three talking chimpanzees, who arrived mysteriously in a spacecraft. Intrigued by their intelligence, humans use them for research - until the apes attempt to escape.
“Meet baby Milo who has Washington terrified.”
Top Cast
Roddy McDowall
Cornelius
Kim Hunter
Dr. Zira
Bradford Dillman
Dr. Lewis Dixon
Natalie Trundy
Dr. Stephanie 'Stevie' Branton
Eric Braeden
Dr. Otto Hasslein
William Windom
The President
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Rating
6.4/ 10
Release Date
1971-05-20
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
ActionScience Fiction
Part of the Series
Planet of the Apes (Original) Collection
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User Reviews (5)
Potential Kermode
6/10
•3/18/2017**A picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a picture of the artist painting a landscape.**
Indeed.
Talk, talk and some more talk. Then they all decide to talk some more - taking a break ...
r96sk
8/10
•2/27/2022A very good sequel.
<em>'Escape from the Planet of the Apes'</em> is a clear improvement on (the good) <em>'Beneath the Planet of the Apes'</em> and isn't that far adrift from the 1968 original. The plot is out there but they make it believable, w...
r96sk
8/10
•2/27/2022A very good sequel.
<em>'Escape from the Planet of the Apes'</em> is a clear improvement on (the good) <em>'Beneath the Planet of the Apes'</em> and isn't that far adrift from the 1968 original. The plot is out there but they make it believable, w...
CinemaSerf
6/10
•6/8/2023Now quite how, we don't know, but suffice to say that "Cornelius" (Roddy McDowall) and "Zira" (Kim Hunter) manage to find themselves a spaceship and travel back in time to an Earth when humans - here, more specifically, a bunch of rather numb-sculled...